Corsair Voyager GTX 128GB – SSD speed from a USB3 flash drive.

You can find various USB flash drives, ranging
from the older and much slower USB2 to the current USB3 that can offer anything
from acceptable read/write speeds to outrageous performance, and size won't be
an issue, as you can easily find the one that suits your needs. So why did Corsair
end up with the Voyager GTX? I can only guess that they needed to have a USB3
flash drive that would be able to produce top notch performance, meaning that they
wanted to have SSD like performance.

This is what the Corsair Voyager GTX claims
to do. The Corsair Voyager GTX is available in two capacities, 128GB and 256GB,
that should provide more than enough space to carry with you all the time, and
most importantly both drives will give outstanding read/write speeds.

You can find out more about Corsair simply
by visiting their website here. Now let's
start this review for the Corsair Voyager GTX by taking a look at the packaging.

A quick look at the Corsair Voyager GTX and its specifications

The packaging for the Corsair Voyager GTX
is very simple, and clean looking, with red being the dominant colour. On the
right side you will find all the information that you need about the Voyager
GTX.

The
front side.

Here
is the rear.

This
is what you will find on the top and the bottom of the Voyager GTX.

The
Corsair Voyager GTX opened.

Specifications

Let's take a look at the specifications of
the Corsair Voyager GTX as they appear on the official website.

This was the most relevant information that
I could find at the time of writing this review, but you can always check the
products page on the Corsair website for further info.

CrystalDiskInfo

Here I present two screenshots from CrystalDiskInfo.
One with the drive connected in a Windows 7 installation, without UASP, and a
second with the drive connected in a Windows 8.1 installation. So let's take a
look.

Starting with Windows 7 without UASP
support, here is how the Corsair Voyager GTX is identified.

The Corsair voyager GTX in a Windows 8
install. As we can also see in both screenshots, CDI reports the Total Host
Writes as well.